Digital Innovation to Advance a Net Zero Future

Event: ADB's Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS 2023): Imagining a Net-Zero ASEAN

Digital Innovation to Advance a Net Zero Future

30 March 2023

Available and emerging technologies are enabling efficiencies that drive decarbonization. Digital innovations are changing consumption patterns and lifestyle habits, while digitalization, across industry sectors, has transformed business models and ways of working.

This thematic session at the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) fourth Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS) examined technologies that power transformation and offer the potential to achieve net-zero. Panelists explored game-changing innovations and provided insights from their respective spheres of influence.

The session was co-organized with the Tech for Good Institute.

With the theme, "Imagining a Net-Zero ASEAN," SEADS 2023 explored measures governments, communities, and the private sector could take to progress toward carbon neutrality.

Speakers

Welcome Remarks: Thomas Abell, Chief, Digital Technology for Development, ADB
Setiaji Setiaji, Chief, Digital Transformation Office, Ministry of Health, Indonesia 
Benjamin Koetz, Head of Sustainable Initiatives Office, Earth Observation Directorate, European Space Agency
Ming Tan, Founding Executive Director, Tech for Good Institute
Emily Ng, Head of Majors Accounts for Asia, Zoom
Adrienne Heinrich, Head of AI and Innovation Center of Excellence, Aboitiz Data Innovation
Closing Presentation: Marc Lepage, Principal IT Specialist (Technology Innovation), ADB
Moderator: Akito Tanaka, Senior Staff Writer and Chief Business News Correspondent, Nikkei Asia
Master of Ceremonies: Arndt Husar, Senior Public Management Specialist (Digital Transformation), ADB

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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